Snowflake Challenge - day 7

[dizzojay]

 Challenge #7

In your own space, interact with a community or a fic.

Today I participated in 

thefridayfive

 Here are the questions and my answers!

1. What's a food you liked when you were younger but don't anymore?  I used to enjoy those horrible sweets that all young kids like – penny chews, love hearts, flying saucers, refreshers.  I can’t stand that sort of insubstantial, sugary, sherberty crap now.

2. What's a food you used to not like but now you do?  I grew up in a family with a very narrow, bland palate, and so everything I ate was safe, familiar ‘meat and two veg’ types of meals.  So I’m going to say curry.  I hated the sight and smell of curry when I was a child and wouldn’t go near it because my parents wouldn’t.  I enjoy a nice curry now, something mild but flavoursome.  The thought of a curry even crossing the threshold of my childhood home is laughable!

3. What's a food you enjoy eating both warm and cold?  Cheese, I enjoy it in sandwiches straight out of the fridge, or melted on toast, in omelettes, in a sauce – anything really!

4. Are there any foods you can't get anymore? Why not?  My Grandad used to make wonderful chips (not as in the US term for crisps, but UK chunky chips).  They were hand cut from potatoes and deep fried in beef dripping until they were really crispy on the outside.  They were probably really unhealthy, but hellfire, they were delicious.  My Grandad passed away in 2009 and did a lot less cooking in the last ten years of his life, so I probably hadn’t had those chips for over twenty five years, maybe nearer thirty, but I can still remember how divine they were.

5. What's your favorite "breakfast for dinner" (or "dinner for breakfast") food?  You can’t beat a nice full English breakfast any time of the day.  Sausage, bacon, fried egg, mushrooms, baked beans, hash browns and toast (or fried bread if you’re feeling particularly indulgent!)

Comments

[fairyniamh]

Cheese is a delicious... food. Only cheese that I truly hate is that maggot abomination and Jarlsberg.

[dizzojay]

I'm with you, the thought of eating anything involving maggots is pure puke-fuel.

For me, the king of cheeses is a delicious, crumbly, obnoxiously strong British Cheddar. I don't mind Jarlsberg and other European cheeses, but I do find them a bit mild and 'blah' for my tastes!

[pronker]

I definitely second the hearty breakfast, particularly sausage and egg - do I assume tea as a beverage to start the day? And the potatoes sound heavenly.

[dizzojay]

Actually, I usually start the day with a coffee, but my breakfast drink of choice is orange juice!
You can get all sorts of potatoes with a full English breakfast, but more and more you're seeing potatoes that we call has browns. I don't know if they're the same as the hash browns from the US?

[pronker]

OJ cuts the nighttime nasty taste that clings to our mouths, so I heartily agree! As for hash browns, I like 'em. They are skinny, peeled potatoes, which means they do not burn as easily as if the skins were left on *glares at recent full breakfast I ordered, chock full of potatoes slightly burned*

[bethctg]

I would like to try a full English breakfast someday.

And it's great that you've got a more adventurous palate these days. :)

[dizzojay]

The good thing about a full English is it's normally made up of separate ingredients which you can mix and match. For instance, a grilled tomato is another standard ingredient of a full English, but I don't like tomatoes, so I tend to go for more mushrooms instead.

I'm so glad I've got a broader palate as well. When I hit my teens and started going out with friends without Mum and Dad, it was embarrassing going to restaurants and cafes and there wasn't a single thing on the menu I liked or had even tried.

[starfleetbrat]

(via snowflake challenge)

I agree re curry! my parents used to make the most awful curries. You could not have paid me to eat curry when I a kid. I think they used curry powder and not much else. But these days there are so many good curries! I've made a few really good ones, and could quite honestly eat it most of the week now lol

I like your note about the chips your Grandad made. Those are the best kind of chips! My nan used to make something similar with beef dripping. She used to keep a bowl of the solidified dripping in the fridge, and would tell me how they used to have it on sandwiches during the war when they couldnt get butter. I miss her food a lot, no matter how much I try I just can't get mine to come out like hers did.

[dizzojay]

Yes, the bowl of solidified dripping - that's exactly what my grandad had! Such fond memories of our lovely grandparents x